The Battleship Potemkin: The History and Legacy of the Famous Mutiny aboard the Russian Ship

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the mutiny*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“The hero is the sailors' battleship, the Odessa crowd, but characteristic figures are snatched here and there from the crowd. For a moment, like a conjuring trick, they attract all the sympathies of the audience: like the sailor Vakulinchuk, like the young woman and child on the Odessa Steps, but they emerge only to dissolve once more into the mass. This signifies: no film stars but a film of real-life types.” –Adrian Piotrovsky, writing for the Leningrad newspaper Krasnaia gazetaRussia entered the 20th century in possession of nearly all of the prerequisites for an empire of historic proportions. The tsar presided over almost one-sixth of the world’s land masses extending from a culturally European West to an Asian East, with vast expanses of forest steppe and tundra reaching from Poland to the Pacific Ocean. Land-based military forces reflected the potency of a globally